Hugo (software)
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| Initial release | July 5, 2013[1] |
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| Written in | Go |
| Operating system | Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, macOS, Android |
| Platform | x86, x86-64, ARM |
| Type | Blog publishing system |
| License | Apache License 2.0[2] |
Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It was originally created by Steve Francia as an open source project in 2013. Since v0.14 in 2015,[3] Hugo has continued development under the lead of Bjørn Erik Pedersen with other contributors. Hugo is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.[4]
Hugo is particularly noted for its speed, and Hugo's official website states it is "the world’s fastest framework for building websites". In July 2015, Netlify began providing Hugo hosting.[5] Notable adopters are Smashing Magazine, which migrated from WordPress to a JAMstack solution with Hugo in and in 2017,[6] and Cloudflare, which switched its Developer Docs from Gatsby to Hugo in 2022.[7]
Features
Hugo takes data files, i18n bundles, configuration, templates for layouts, static files, and content written in Markdown, AsciiDoctor, or Org-mode and renders a static website. Some notable features are multilingual support, image processing, custom output formats, and shortcodes. Nested sections allow for different types of content to be separated. E.g. for a website containing a blog and a podcast.[8]
References
- ^ "Releases - gohugoio/hugo". Retrieved 31 December 2020 – via GitHub.
- ^ "LICENSE". Github. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ^ "Interview with Bjørn Erik Pedersen, Hugo lead developer". the New Dynamic. October 3, 2017. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
- ^ "Apache License | Hugo". Hugo website. 13 September 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
- ^ "Hosting Hugo on Netlify–Insanely Fast Deploys". Netlify. July 30, 2015. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
- ^ Friedman, Vitaly (March 17, 2017). "A Little Surprise Is Waiting For You Here. — Smashing Magazine". Smashing Magazine. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
- ^ "We rebuilt Cloudflare's developer documentation - here's what we learned". The Cloudflare Blog. 2022-05-27. Retrieved 2022-07-14.
- ^ van Gumster, Jason (18 May 2017). "Hugo vs. Jekyll: Comparing the leading static website generators". Opensource.com. Retrieved 11 March 2018.